Three symbolic political developments. In my opinion, three symbolic events characterise political life in this period leading up to Easter: (a) the first public debates at the Council of Ministers on the EU's Financial Perspectives for 2014-2020. The true debate has not yet started, but the debate has formally opened into the choices that will determine in practice what the EU will be like in the future; (b) the decision by Tunisia to not use sharia (Islamic law) as the foundation of its new...